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TIRTZA EVEN 2016 C URRIC ULUM VITAE EDUCATION 1993–95: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS 1990–93: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS 1990–93: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS 1985–89: HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM, ISRAEL Master’s, The Interactive Telecommunications Program Master’s, Cinema Studies Ethnographic Film Program Bachelor’s, English Literature PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS / EMPLOYMENT 2010–Present: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR 2005–10: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR 2001–05: ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR 2000–02: ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR 2000–01: VIDEO ART INSTRUCTOR Pelican Bay and San Quentin State Prisons, California 1996–99: VIDEO AND MEDIA TEACHER Camera Obscura, Tel-Aviv; Kalisher, Tel-Aviv; Interdisciplinary Institute, Herzelia; Hadasa, Jerusalem 1996–98: ART CRITIC Studio Art Magazine, Israel Published articles/reviews about Video Artwork exhibited in Israel and abroad TIRTZA EVEN The School of the Art Institute of Chicago The School of Art & Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor The Interactive Telecommunications Program, New York University Graduate Art Department, Columbia University, New York 2 C U R R I C U LU M V ITA E 1990–96: CAMERA PERSON Character Generators Video Inc., New York Video documentation of theater and dance performances in the New-York City. Clients included the Lincoln Center Library of the Performance Arts, the Whitney Museum’s Performance Art Series, Brooklyn Academy of Music and Joyce Theater. Projects included works by Pilobolus, Meredith Monk, Bill T. Jones and John Kelly. AWARDS / GRANTS / FELLOWSHIPS / COMMISSIONS 2015: WOMEN’S INTERNATIONAL FILM AND ARTS FESTIVAL WPBT2 (PBS) Silvers Award for Independent Film, for Natural Life 2015: THE SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO Faculty Enrichment Grant for Land Mine 2014: FLEDGLING FUNDS Distribution and Outreach Grant for Natural Life 2014: CHICAGO FILMMAKERS AND VOQAL Chicago Digital Media Production Fund for Natural Life, Interactive Archive 2014: SOCAIL JUSTICE FESTIVAL, SEATTLE Prisoner Justice Prize for Natural Life 2014: NORTHSIDE FILM FESTIVAL, NY 2013: THE SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO Faculty Enrichment Grant for Natural Life 2012: ARTADIA AWARDS, CHICAGO Winner of top award 2012: THE SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO Faculty of the Year Award 2011: THE SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO President Faculty Research Grant for Natural Life 2011: THE SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO Faculty Enrichment Grant for Natural Life 2010: LOS ANGELES REEL FILM FESTIVAL Winner of Honorable Mention for All Day 2010: LOS ANGELES CINEMA FESTIVAL OF HOLLYWOOD Winner of Experimental Award of Merit for All Day 2010: ACCOLADES Winner of Award of Merit for All Day 2010: WORLDEAF CINEMA FESTIVAL, GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY Winner of Special Recognition Award for Sign Discourse 2009: OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT FOR RESEARCH GRANT, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Project grant for All Day TIRTZA EVEN Honorable Mention for Natural Life 3 C U R R I C U LU M V ITA E 2009: SYRACUSE FILM FESTIVAL Winner of Best Experimental Film for Once A Wall, or Ripple Remains 2009: 1078 GALLERY FILM FESTIVAL 2008: THE JACKSON SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND, MICHIGAN Winner of Best Full Length Film for Once A Wall, or Ripple Remains Project grant for Sentence Worn 2007–08: THE INSTITUTE FOR THE HUMANITIES FACULTY FELLOWSHIP, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN- Year-long fellowship awarded for the completion of Once A Wall, or Ripple Remains 2007: OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT FOR RESEARCH GRANT, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Project grant for Sentence Worn 2007: RACKHAM FACULTY GRANT, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 2006: THE EDWARD GINSBERG CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE AND LEARNING GRANT Funds awarded to facilitate outreach course whereby students produced short video pieces in collaboration with inmates at a local state prison 2006: Project grant for Once A Wall, or Ripple Remains OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT FOR RESEARCH GRANT, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Project grant for Once A Wall, or Ripple Remains 2006: ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION, NEW MEDIA FELLOWSHIP: Nominee 2004–05: THE JEWISH MUSEUM, NEW YORK 2004: THE EXPERIMENTAL TELEVISION CENTER, NEW YORK Finishing Funds for Counterface 2004: ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION, NEW MEDIA FELLOWSHIP: Nominee 2003: THE EXPERIMENTAL TELEVISION CENTER, NEW YORK Finishing Funds for Painted Devil 2003: ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION, NEW MEDIA FELLOWSHIP: Nominee 2002: NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS, NEW YORK 2002: SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Golden Gate Awards, New Visions, Certificate of Merit for Far, Along 2000: THE JEROME FOUNDATION, NEW YORK 2000: THE EXPERIMENTAL TELEVISION CENTER, NEW YORK 2000: L’IMMAGINE LEGGERA FESTIVAL, PALERMO, ITALY First Prize for Kayam Al Hurbano, Festival Competition 1998: NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS, NEW YORK 1998: THE EXPERIMENTAL TELEVISION CENTER, NEW YORK Finishing Funds for Blind TIRTZA EVEN Commission of Definition Individual Artists Program Awards Media Arts Award for Far, Along Artist in Residence Individual Artists Program Awards for Blind 4 C U R R I C U LU M V ITA E 1997: HARVESTWORKS MEDIA ARTS, NEW YORK Artist in Residence 1996: NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS, NEW YORK 1996: THE EXPERIMENTAL TELEVISION CENTER, NEW YORK Finishing Funds for Blind 1989: INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION, USIA Individual Artists Program Awards for Blind Fulbright Grant PROJECTS (SELECTED) 2016: LAND MINE (work in progress) (Co-Producer, Director, Editor) A feature length documentary telling the story of my childhood home, a three-story apartment building in Jerusalem set not far from the Valley of the Cross and looking over the Parliament, the Israel Museum and the Hebrew University. The stories of the nine families who shared the building echo each other and overlap through serendipitous intersections, together embodying the depth of the culture the house fostered, as well as that culture’s entropy, moral deformation and loss, in a land devastated by its own acts of military aggression and repression. 2014: NATURAL LIFE (Producer, Director, Editor) A three fold feature length documentary, installation and interactive archive produced in conjunction with the legal efforts of Civil Rights Attorney Deborah LaBelle, about kids sentenced to life without parole in Michigan State prisons. Screened /displayed at Currents New Media Festival (upcoming, 2016); SXSW Interactive Conference (2016); SF Documentary Festival (June 2015); Women’s International Film and Arts Festival (June 2015; WPBT2 (PBS) Silvers Award for Independent Film); MOCAD, Detroit (Feb-March 2015); Big Sky Festival (February 2015); the Social Justice Film Festival, Seattle, WA (October, 2014); Arlington International Film Festival, MA (October, 2014); Fine Art Museum, Lille, France (October, 2014); Chicago Park District Inaugural Local Film Showcase (September, 2014); Gallery Project, ‘Unseen’, Detroit & Ann Arbor (August, 2014); Marfa Film Festival, Texas (July, 2014); Northside Film Festival, Brooklyn (June, 2014; Winner of Honorable Mention); Siskel Theatre, Chicago (April, 2014); Athens Film Festival, Ohio (April, 2014) and many others. Preview version shown at Sullivan Gallery (2012), Rumble Arts, Chicago (2013), Edwin Gallery, Detroit (2013), Mana Center, Chicago (2013), Siskel Theatre, Chicago (2013); Hull House, Chicago (2013). 2012 SENTENCE WORN (Co-Director, Editor, Camera Person) A video installation produced in collaboration with Mary Heinen-Glover, the project’s Producer/Co-Director, and telling the story of her long-term incarceration in Michigan’s correctional facilities. Work in progress segments shown at Work, Detroit (Fall 2007), Sullivan Gallery (2012), Hyde Park Art Center (2016) 2010: TIRTZA EVEN ALL DAY (Producer, Co-Director, Editor, Camera Person) A 3D animation/experimental video (29 minutes) produced in collaboration with Justin Gibson, a 24-year-old man serving a life sentence at a Michigan State correctional facility. Screened and exhibited at 2739 Edwin Gallery, Detroit (2010); 5 C U R R I C U LU M V ITA E Selected for Los Angeles Reel Film Festival (2010, winner of Honorable Mention); Accolades (2010, winner of Award of Merit); Great Lakes International Film Festival, Philadelphia (2010); the Prison Creative Arts Project Annual Exhibition, Ann Arbor (2011). Distributed by Heure Exquise, France, and Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV), Canada. 2009: ONCE A WALL, OR RIPPLE REMAINS (Producer, Director, Editor, Camera Person) A 3D animation/video installation and single-channel Video (59 minutes) reflecting on a series of encounters which took place in the Occupied Territory of Palestine during 1998. Presented as work in progress in the International Conference on the Arts In Society, Edinburgh (2006); Galeria Biala, Centrum Kultury in Lublin, Poland (2006); Slusser and Work Galleries, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2006); The New School’s conference on Anthropology and Video/Film, New York (2007); The Residential College Gallery, Ann Arbor (2008); Lady Bug Gallery, Detroit (2008); The Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2008). Exhibited in its final form at 2739 Edwin Gallery, Detroit (2009); Syracuse Film Festival (2009, winner of Best Experimental Film); Muestra Internacional de Cine Documental, Puerto Rico (2009); FAD Digital Arts Festival Gallery, Belo Horizonte, Brazil (2009); 1078 Gallery Film Festival, California (2009, winner of Best Full Length Film); Spoke Gallery, Chicago (2009); AC institute, New York (2010); and many others. Distributed by Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV), Canada 2008: MAREE MAKOM (Writer, Camera Person) Maree Makom, the text underlying Once A Wall, or Ripple Remains, consists of a set of short paragraphs that obliquely convey my autobiography as embedded in the images I produced in Palestine. The printed segments are adjacent to stills taken from the 3D animations constituting Once A Wall, or Ripple Remains, which, in turn, interpret the individual written paragraphs. The book in its print form is not bound. The pages are contained in a box. Displayed at 2739 Edwin Gallery, Detroit (2009); School of Art Institute, Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Chicago (2009); Spoke Gallery, Chicago (2009); AC institute, New York (2010) 2007: SIGN DISCOURSE (Co-Producer, Co-Director, Co-Editor, Camera Person) A documentary video (40 minutes) produced in collaboration with Haggith GorZiv, exploring the experiences of people living with a hearing disability. Produced for an exhibition on the topic at the Children Museum, Holon, Israel (2007). Shown also at the Deaf Rochester Film Festival, New York (2009); The Center of Critical Pedagogy, Tel Aviv (2008; 2009); The Department of Sociology, Tel Aviv University (2009); Work Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2009); “Re-framing Reality,” International Disability Film Festival, Jerusalem (2010); The Early Childhood Deaf Educators Association, Tel Aviv (2010); The Annual Conference on Disability Studies in Education, National-Louis University, Chicago (2011), and others. The piece is regularly screened as part of the syllabus of the Education Department, Kibbutzim College, Israel, and has received the Special Recognition Award at the Worldeaf Cinema Festival, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC. Distributed by Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV), Canada 2006: INVISIBLE TO THE WORLD (Co-Producer, Co-Director, Co-Editor, Camera Person) A documentary video (56 minutes) produced in collaboration with Haggith Gor-Ziv, TIRTZA EVEN 6 C U R R I C U LU M V ITA E investigating the experiences of people living with a mentally-ill family member. Produced and distributed under the auspices of NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) 2005: DEFINITION (Co-Producer, Co-Director, Co-Editor, Camera Person) A video installation in conjunction with an interactive audio installation produced in collaboration with Brian Karl. The project depicts the multiplicity of definitions of the term “Jewish” as viewed by individuals both Jewish and non-Jewish. The metaphor of a sign-language “dictionary” serves as a formal access point, in which a vocabulary of invented and choreographed physical gestures is enacted in diverse indoors and outdoor urban locales by a group of actors/dancers. Commissioned by the Jewish Museum, New York, for a Fall 2005 exhibition, which travelled also to Skirball Center for the Arts, Los Angeles (2006), and to the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco (2006) 2004: ICARUS (Producer, Director, Camera Person, Editor) A dynamic video installation consisting of a 12-minute reverse pan across five circular sites shot in Cartagena, Spain. Presented at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2004); San Francisco Cinematheque, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (2004); Chelsea Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2004); San Francisco Film Festival (2005); 11th International WRO Media Art Biennale, Poland (2005); Festival of Hérouville, France (2005); 27e Festival International Cinéma Méditerranéen, Montpellier, France (2005); Silver Lake Film Festival, Los Angeles (2006); LEF, Art Interactive Gallery, Boston (2006); Rencontres Internationales, Paris, Madrid and Berlin (2006, 2007); 2739 Edwin Gallery, Detroit (2009); and others. Distributed by Heure Exquise, France and Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV), Canada 2004: PAINTED DEVIL/COUNTERFACE (Co-Producer, Co-Director, Co-Editor, Camera Person, Programmer) A two-fold documentary project produced in collaboration with Brian Karl, comprising a single-channel video (52 minutes) and an interactive video installation, both investigating the variety of positions and views on and of women in Turkey. Presented at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2004); the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, Collective Unconscious, New York (2004); and at the 18es Instants Vidéo Festival, Marseille, France (2005). Distributed by Heure Exquise, France and Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV), Canada 2003: THIS CARD WHICH IS BLANK (Producer, Director, Camera Person, Editor) A multi-channel installation consisting of a group of six video collages projected from above onto the dark glass lids of large wooden boxes, depicting scenes evocative of a public and private urban wasteland. Presented at the Chelsea Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2004) 2002: WOMEN ONLY (Co-Producer, Co-Director, Co-Editor, Camera Person) A documentary video (56 minutes) produced in collaboration with Haggith GorZiv, investigating the multitude of experiences, views and mythologies surrounding pregnancy and giving birth. TIRTZA EVEN 7 C U R R I C U LU M V ITA E 2001: SLIP (Co-Producer, Co-Director, Co-Programmer, Camera Person) An interactive video installation produced in collaboration with Sha Xin Wei, shot at Peachtree Pine Homeless Shelter in Atlanta, Georgia. Presented at Postmasters Gallery, New York (2001) and at the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit (2006) 2001: FAR, ALONG (Co-Producer, Co-Director, Co-Editor, Camera Person) A single-channel video (25 minutes) produced in collaboration with Brian Karl, depicting contemporary scenes from Germany overlaid and penetrated by memories of the world war. Presented at Postmasters Gallery, New York (2001); The New York Video Festival, Lincoln Center, New York (2002); The Sixth International Video Festival Videomedeja, Yugoslavia (2002); Pacific Film Archive, San Francisco (2003); the Jewish Museum, New York (2003); the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, Collective Unconscious, New York (2004). Winner of Golden Gate Awards Certificate of Merit, San Francisco International Film Festival (2002). Purchased for the permanent collection of the Jewish Museum, New York. Distributed by Heure Exquise, France and Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV), Canada 2000: OCCUPIED TERRITORY (Producer, Camera Person, Editor, Programmer) CD-ROM and web site containing a navigable movie that displays scenes shot in Deheishe, a refugee camp in Palestine. Presented at Postmasters Gallery, New York (2001); Digital Flaherty Seminar (2001); Carnegie Art Center, Buffalo, New York (2002); Art Pace, San Antonio (2002); O.K Center for Contemporary Art, Linz (2003); the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2004); L’espace Multimedia Gantner, France (2005); The Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit (2006); and others. Purchased for the permanent collection of the Jewish Museum, New York and the Conseil General, Territoire de Belfort Art Collection, France 2000: FLICKER (Co-Producer, Co-Director, Co-Editor, Camera Person) A single-channel video (20 minutes) depicting intersecting images of people’s movements with themselves slightly delayed, which result in new hybrid gestures and spaces. Presented at Postmasters Gallery, New York (2001); AIM IV, California (2003); Ssamzie Space, Seoul (2005); Cooperative Gallery, Jerusalem (2006). Distributed by Heure Exquise, France and Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV), Canada 1999: KAYAM AL HURBANO (EXISTING ON ITS RUINS) (Producer, Co-Director, Co-Editor, Camera Person) An experimental documentary (35 minutes) made in collaboration with Bosmat Alon, depicting life in a refugee camp in Palestine. Selected for the Whitney Biennial, New York (2002). Also presented at Ami Steinits Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (1999); L’immagine Leggera Festival, Palermo, Italy (2000, winner of 1st prize); Chisenhale Gallery, London (2000); Sienna Jewish Museum, Italy (2000); [d]vision 2000 Festival, Vienna; Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland (2000); Digital Flaherty Seminar, New York (2001); Le réel en scène - les écrans documentaires, Paris (2001); l’Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris (2001); Cantor Film Center, New York (2002); Carnegie Art Center, Buffalo, New York (2002); Santa Monica Museum, Los Angeles (2002); Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Florida (2002); the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2004); Pacific Film Archives, San Francisco (2004); L’espace Multimedia Gantner, France (2005); and many others. Distributed by Heure Exquise, France and Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV), Canada TIRTZA EVEN 8 C U R R I C U LU M V ITA E 1999: WINDOWS (Producer, Director, Editor, Camera Person) A video installation displaying urban scenes shot through windows at night. Presented at Art Focus 99, Jerusalem 1999: OPTICAL POEM (Instructor/Director) A CD-ROM dedicated to the poetry (and with the participation) of Israeli poet Maya Bijerano. Produced by the Camera Obscura Media Dept., Tel Aviv. Presented at Medi@terra Festival, Athens, Greece (2000) 1997: RURAL (Producer, Camera Person, Editor, Programmer) An interactive video on CD-ROM allowing the user to navigate and visit in depth four layers of image sequences shot across rural USA. Presented at the 1997 Johannesburg Biennial; the 1998 Rotterdam Film Festival; 1998 Pandemonium Festival, London; Broadway Media Center, Nottingham (1999); Postmasters Gallery, New York (2001). Distributed on CD-ROM by Heure Exquise, France 1997: BLIND (Producer, Camera Person, Editor) A multi-channel video installation investigating the notion of private space in small towns across the West Coast. Segments from Blind were presented at the Haifa Museum of Art, Israel (1998); Postmasters Gallery, New York (1999); Kunstwerke, Berlin (1999); Pratinou, Athens (1999) and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2000 and 2003). Purchased for the permanent collection of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1996: VIDEO CUBE (Producer, Camera Person, Editor, Programmer) A video puzzle on CD-ROM. Included in “New Voices, New Visions” 1996 Finalists CD-ROM. Distributed on CD-ROM by Heure Exquise, France 1995: CITYQUILT (Producer, Camera Person, Editor, Programmer) An interactive video on CD-ROM, programmed to allow the user to navigate across a canvas of indoor and outdoor scenes of New York. CityQuilt has been shown at ACM 95 Multimedia Conference, San Francisco; Pulse Art, New York (1996); Postmasters, New York (1996); Center of Contemporary Culture, Barcelona (3MVI, 1996); Transmediale 99, Berlin. Distributed on CD-ROM by Heure Exquise, France 1995: PAN (Producer, Director, Camera Person, Editor) A single-channel video (5 minutes) exploring the off-screen as a positive physical space existing between two sections of a continuous image. Presented at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2003); the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2000 and 2003); the Haifa Museum of Art, Israel (1998); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Florida (1998); Postmasters Gallery, New York (1999); Rockefeller Center, New York (1999); Art in General, New York (2001); New Art Center, Newton, Massachusetts (2001); and many others. Purchased for the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel 1993: TIRTZA EVEN SITE TO BOTH (Producer, Director, Camera Person, Editor) A single-channel experimental documentary (40 minutes) about the making of an En-Garde-Arts site specific theater piece by Laurie Carlos in Harlem, New York 9 C U R R I C U LU M V ITA E COLLECTIONS (SELECTED) The permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York The permanent collection of the Jewish Museum, New York The permanent collection of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel The Conseil General, Territoire de Belfort Art Collection, France DISTRIBUTION Video Data Bank, 112 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60603 Heure Exquise, BP 113 59370 Mons en Baroeul, France Passion River, 154 Mt Bethel, Warren, NJ 07059 Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV), 4001, rue Berri local 105, Montréal, Canada SCREENINGS AND EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED) 2016: Currents New Media Festival, Santa Fe 2016: Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago 2016: Images de Justice Film Festival, Rennes, France 2015: Columbia University, Center for Justice, NY 2015: NYC Independent Film Festival 2015: Impunging Imunity: ALBA’S Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, NY 2015: Commffest Film Festival, Toronto 2015: Ammerman Center, Connecticut Collage 2015: PACE Criminal Justice Institute, NY 2015: Run of Life Series, Constellation, Chicago 2015: Arlington Iinternational Film Festival in Partnership with the Robbins Library, MA 2015: Chicago Filmmakers Coop: 2014 CDMPF Award Winners Screening 2015: San Francisco Documentary Festival 2015: Women’s International Film and Arts Festival (WPBT2 (PBS) Silvers Award for Independent Film) 2015: School of Visual Arts, NY 2015: David Weinberg Photography, Chicago 2015: The Museum of Contemporary Art of Detroit (MOCAD) 2015: Big Sky Film Festival, MO TIRTZA EVEN 10 C U R R I C U LU M V ITA E 2014: St. Louis International Film Festival (SLIFF) 2014: Escales Documentaires, La Rochelle, France 2014: 31st Annual Olympia Film Festival, WA 2014: Marda Loop Justice Film Festival, Calgary, Canada 2014: Social Justice Film Festival, Seattle, WA (Prison Justice Prize) 2014: Arlington International Film Festival, MA 2014: Fine Art Museum, Lille, France 2014: Chicago Park District Inaugural Local Film Showcase 2014: Cincinnati Film Festival, Ohio 2014: Gallery Projects, Ann Arbor and Detroit 2014: Marfa Film Festival, Texas 2014: Northside Film Festival, Brooklyn (Honorable Mention) 2014: Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago 2014: Athens International Film Festival, Ohio 2013: Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago 2013: Maison De La Culture Du Plateau-Mont-Royal, Montreal 2013: Hull House Museum, Chicago 2013: Edwin Gallery, Detroit 2013: Rumble Arts, Chicago 2012: Art Expo, Chicago 2012: Sullivan Gallery, Chicago 2011: Kunsthalle of Mulhouse, France 2011: Rymer Gallery, Chicago 2011: Syracuse University, College of Law, New York 2011: Bet Harishonim, Rishon Lezion, Israel 2011: Seoul International Experimental Film Festival, Korea 2011: Library of Argiesans, France 2011: Conference on Disability Studies in Education, National-Louis University, Chicago 2011: Shema Center, Jerusalem 2011: Prison Creative Arts Project Annual Exhibition, Ann Arbor TIRTZA EVEN 11 C U R R I C U LU M V ITA E 2011: Ono Academic College, Israel 2011: Shelanu Center, Tel Aviv 2010: Concrete Geometries Research Cluster Preview Exhibition, London 2010: International Exhibition Nord Art, Germany 2010: AC institute, New York 2010: Los Angeles Reel Film Festival (Honorable Mention) 2010: Great Lakes International Film Festival, Philadelphia 2010: 2739 Edwin Gallery, Detroit 2010: Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood (winner of Experimental Award of Merit) 2010: Burton Theater, Detroit 2010: “Re-framing Reality,” International Disability Film Festival, Cinemateque, Jerusalem 2010: Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2009: Spoke Gallery, Chicago 2009: Department of Sociology, Tel Aviv University 2009: 1078 Gallery Film Festival, California (winner of Best Full Length Film) 2009: Syracuse International Film Festival, New York (winner of Best Experimental Film) 2009: Muestra Internacional de Cine Documental, Puerto Rico 2009: Deaf Rochester Film Festival, New York 2009: Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles 2009: FAD Digital Arts Festival Gallery, Brazil 2009: 2739 Edwin Gallery, Detroit 2009: Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2008: Galapagos Art Space, New York 2008: Harvestworks Digital Media Center, New York 2008: Biennial Tehran 2008: Lady Bug Gallery, Detroit 2008: The Center of Critical Pedagogy, Tel Aviv 2008: The Residential College Gallery, Ann Arbor 2007: The Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit 2007: Rencontres Internationales, Berlin TIRTZA EVEN 12 C U R R I C U LU M V ITA E 2007: The Center of Critical Pedagogy, Tel Aviv 2007: NAMI-Metropolitan, Baltimore 2007: The Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2007: Work Gallery, Detroit 2007: Holon Museum, Israel 2007: Rencontres Internationales, Madrid 2007: Work Gallery, Ann Arbor 2006: Skirball Museum, Los Angeles 2006: Rencontres Internationales, Paris 2006: Galeria Biala, Centrum Kultury, Lublin, Poland 2006: The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco 2006: Micro-cinema, Michigan Theatre, Ann Arbor 2006: Silver Lake Film Festival, Los Angeles 2006: LEF, Art Interactive Gallery, Boston 2006: Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2006: The Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit 2006: Cooperative Gallery, Jerusalem 2005: San Francisco Film Festival 2005: Jewish Museum, New York 2005: Ssamzie Space, Seoul 2005: Festival of Hérouville, France 2005: 27e Festival International Cinéma Méditerranéen, Montpellier, France 2005: Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2005: L’espace Multimedia Gantner, France 2005: Sudhaus Cultural Center, Tübingen, Germany 2005: 18es Instants Vidéo Festival, Marseille 2005: 11th International Media Art Biennale, Poland 2004: Chelsea Museum of Contemporary Art, New York 2004: Pacific Film Archive, San Francisco TIRTZA EVEN 13 C U R R I C U LU M V ITA E 2004: San Francisco Cinematheque, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2004: Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, Collective Unconscious, New York 2004: Israel Museum, Jerusalem 2003: Pacific Film Archive, San Fransisco 2003: Israel Museum, Jerusalem 2003: Jewish Museum, New York 2003: O.K Center for Contemporary Art, Linz 2003: AIM IV, California 2003: Museum of Modern Art, New York 2002: Whitney Biennial, New York 2002: Santa Monica Museum, Los Angeles 2002: The New York Video Festival, Lincoln Center, New York 2002: The Sixth International Video Festival Videomedeja, Yugoslavia 2002: Cantor Film Center, New York 2002: Carnegie Art Center, Buffalo, New York 2002: The Armory Show, New York 2001: Postmasters Gallery, New York 2001: Le réel en scène - les écrans documentaires, Paris 2001: l’Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris 2001: Video Lounge, Millenium Film Workshop, New York 2001: New Art Center, Newton, Massachusetts 2001: Haifa University Gallery, Israel 2001: Art in General, New York 2000: LA FreeWaves, California Museum of Photography 2000: VideoArt Festival, Locarno 2000: Israel Museum, Jerusalem 2000: Sienna Jewish Museum, Italy 2000: DMZ_2000, Gallery Korea, New York 2000: [d]vision 2000 Festival, Vienna TIRTZA EVEN 14 C U R R I C U LU M V ITA E 2000: Chisenhale Gallery, London 2000: L’immagine Leggera Festival, Palermo, Italy (winner of First Prize) 1999: Rockefeller Center, New York 1999: Art Focus 3, International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Jerusalem 1999: Kunstwerke, Berlin 1999: Pratinou, Athens 1999: Postmasters Gallery, New York 1999: Broadway Media Center, Nottingham 1999: Art Workshop, Rishon Le Zion, Israel 1999: Transmediale 99, Berlin 1999: Ami Steinits Gallery, Tel Aviv 1998: Pandemonium Festival, London Electronic Arts 1998: Haifa Museum of Art, Israel 1998: Rotterdam Film Festival 1998: Museum of Contemporary Art, Florida 1997: Johannesburg Biennial 1996: Postmasters Gallery, New York 1996: The Center of Contemporary Culture, Barcelona (3MVI) 1995: Pulse Art, New York LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS (SELECTED) 2016: South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Conference 2015:Uniondocs, NY 2015: School of Visual Arts (panel member), NY 2014: Creative Resistence in a Prison Nation (panel member), Chicago 2014: Scales of Violence, Society for History and Technology (SHOT), Dearborn 2014: Here + Now Lecture Series, SAIC, Chicago, Chicago 2013: Night of Insight (panel member), Hull House Museum, Chicago 2013: Mana Art Center, Chicago 2013: Edwin Gallery (panel member), Detroit 2012:Conversations at the Edge, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago TIRTZA EVEN 15 C U R R I C U LU M V ITA E 2012:Concordia University, Montreal 2011: Prison Creative Arts Project Annual Exhibition, Ann Arbor 2010: The University of Michigan’s Institute for the Humanities’ Annual Seminar 2010: Screen Arts and Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2009: The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection 2009: The Interactive Telecommunications Program, New York University 2009: 2739 Edwin Gallery, Detroit 2008: Brown Bag Lecture, The Institute for the Humanities, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2007: Conference on Anthropology and Video/Film, The New School, New York 2007: Conference on Art and War, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2006: International Conference on the Arts In Society, Edinburgh 2006: Symposium on Zbigniew Libera, The International Institute, Ann Arbor 2006: The Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts conference (SLSA), Chicago 2005: The Performance Studies International conference (PSI), Brown University, Providence 2002: Whitney Museum Seminar Series, New York 2002: Hartford University, Connecticut 2002: Art Pace, San Antonio 2001: Digital Flaherty Seminar, New York 1999: Listen In series, Harvest Works, New York 1998: Digitale 98, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne 1997: Hadasa Photography School, Jerusalem 1996: AIGA Philadelphia and The University of the Arts, Philadelphia 1995: ACM Multimedia 95, San Francisco PUBLISHED WORK (SELECTED) 2006: “Once A Wall, or Ripple Remains,” International Journal of the Arts in Society, 2006 1998: “Pointing at the Window’s Frame,” A Talk with Uri Tzaig, Studio Art Magazine 98, December 1998, Tel Aviv 1998: “From Linear Text To Digital Media - A talk with Maya Bijerano,” Camera Obscura, July 1998, Tel Aviv 1998: “You Can Find Asia By Sailing West, The Work of Stan Douglas,” Studio Art Magazine 94, June 1998, Tel Aviv 1998: “Claude Closky, Doron Solomons, Joseph Robokowski, John Baldessari,” Studio Art Magazine 90, February 1998, Tel Aviv TIRTZA EVEN 16 C U R R I C U LU M V ITA E 1997: “Such Is Life,” Studio Art Magazine 84, July-August 1997, Tel Aviv 1997: “Video Art, Point of View,” Studio Art Magazine 82, May 1997, Tel Aviv 1997: “Alternative Spaces in Teddy’s Stadium,” Studio Art Magazine 78, December 1996 - January 1997, Tel Aviv 1995:“CityQuilt,” ACM Multimedia Proceedings 95, San Francisco, California (http://acm.org/MM95 REVIEWS, ARTICLES, PRESS, CITATIONS (SELECTED) 2015: Latinalista: “Documentary brings upcoming Supreme Court decision on juvenile life sentences to forefront” http://latinalista.com/media-2/videos/documentary-bringsupcoming-supreme-court-decision-on-juvenile-life-sentences-to-forefront 2015: PrisonPhotography.Org: “New, Interactive Online Archive Of Stories Makes The Case Against ‘Juvenile Life Without Parole’” http://prisonphotography.org/2015/09/24/ new-interactive-online-archive-of-stories-makes-the-case-against-juvenile-lifewithout-parole/ 2015: Immersive: “A Life Behind Bars”; a cover story on Efren Paredes and on Natural Life: http://immersive.sh/telesurenglish/ngSujDqpB?fb_ref=Default 2015: Attn; “New Documentary Explores People Sentenced to Life in Prison as Teens”: http://www.attn.com/stories/1738/problem-juvenile-life-without-parole-natural-life 2015: Just Means: http://www.justmeans.com/blogs/designing-change-how-a-mfaprogram-in-design-is-leading-innovation 2015: Visual Art Source: http://www.visualartsource.com/index.php?page=editorial&pcID= 27&aID=2700 2015: Screen Magazine, Loading Doc: http://screenmag.com/story/2015/apr/24/11229/ 2015: PrisonPhotography.org: http://prisonphotography.org/2015/03/16/what-are-wedoing-here-some-thoughts-on-cell-walls-and-gallery-walls/ 2015: Hyperallergic: The Stories of Minors Sentenced to Life in Prison http://hyperallergic. com/189356/the-stories-of-minors-sentenced-to-life-in-prison/ 2015: DEPE Space: Natural Life, a film by Tirtza Even https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=hliG0RaI-Fg 2015: World Socialist Web Site: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/04/08/natu-a08. html 2015: E-flux: http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/ragnar-kjartansson-jamian-julianovillani-and-tirtza-even/ 2015: WMUK: Michigan Juvenile Lifers Subject Of New Documentary: http://wmuk.org/ post/michigan-juvenile-lifers-subject-new-documentary TIRTZA EVEN 17 C U R R I C U LU M V ITA E 2015: Three Shows Give Artistic Perspective on the Lasting Damage of Violence: http:// www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2015/2/three-shows-give-artistic-perspectiveon-the-lasting-damage-of-violence 2015: ACLU blog: http://www.aclumich.org/blog/2015-02-23/natural-life-look-insidemichigan%E2%80%99s-juvenile-lifers 2015: Weekend’s Top 3 Picks: http://badatsports.com/2015/top-3-weekend-picks-213-215/ 2014: Review of “Natural Life”, Drew Hunt, The Chicago Reader, April 18, 2014 2014: Marfa Public Radio, “Talk at Ten”, www.marfapublicradio.org 2014: Review of “Natural Life”, Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, April 18, 2014 2014: “‘Natural Life’ Documentary Asks if Juvenile Life Sentences Are Natural – or Death”, The Chicago Bureau, April 28, 2014 2013: “Documentary Filmmaker Tirtza Even Speaks on Her New Film About Juvenile Incarceration”, Vocalo.org, Nov 14, 2013 2013: Review and featuring of Natural Life during “The Stream”, produced by Omar Baddar, Al Jazeera America, October 28, 2013 2013: “Working Documentary “Natural Life” Brings Experience of Young ‘Lifers’ to Screen”, The Chicago Bureau, Nov 20, 2013 2013: “Art festival had something for everyone”, Kristin Rose, Hamtramck Review, Volume 5 No. 41, October 11, 2013 2013: Preview of Natural Life at Edwin gallery, Knight Arts, http://www.knightarts.org/ community/detroit/preview-save-your-saturday-for-the-hamtramck-neighborhoodarts-festival 2013: “Tamms to Tokyo,” Mary Jane Jacob, http://badatsports.com/2013/tamms-to-tokyo/ 2012: “The Artfulness of Design,” by Thomas Kong, http://www.studiochronotope.com/theartfulness-of-design.html 2012: “An Exploration in Three Parts: Prison Past and Present at The Sullivan Galleries,” http://badatsports.com/2012/an-exploration-in-three-parts-prisons-past-andpresent-at-the-sullivan-galleries/ 2012: “Peering Inside,” http://fnewsmagazine.com/2012/11/peering-inside/ 2012: Occupied Territory, Art a L’Ordinateur, http://art-a-lordinateur.blogspot.com/ search?updated-max=2012-01-23T06:52:00-08:00&max-results=5 2010: Switching Codes, The University of Chicago, Roderick Coover and Thomas Bartscherer 2010: “Liat Livni and Tirtza Even at Nord Art, Büdelsdor, Germany,” review of Nord Art http://www.artisrael.org/event/2010-07/liat-livni-and-tirtza-even-at-nord-artbüdelsdor-germany TIRTZA EVEN 18 C U R R I C U LU M V ITA E 2009: “Tirtza Even and Toby Millman Explore Shifting Views of Occupation at Spoke,“ Claudine Ise, August 20, 2009, http://badatsports.com/category/news/ 2009: “Once A Wall, or Ripple Remains,” Mark(s) Zine, http://www.markszine.net/1001/te/ind.htm 2009: Review of Once A Wall, or Ripple Remains by Tom Friedmann, www.syrfilmfest.com/films/detail/58 2009: “Mending a Fragmented View of the Middle East, Video Artist Tirtza Even’s Meditation on Peace,” Montage, http://www.montage.umich.edu/2009/09/middleeast/ 2005: “Between Man and Place,” Ouzi Zur, review of Flicker, http://m--a--p.net/critic_is.html 2009: “1078 Gallery debuts new film festival,” Cineart, Jason Cassidy, www.newsreview.com/chico/content?oid=1064100 2009: “Painting with Fire,” review of “Made Internationally,” University of Michigan, http:// lesliesobel.blogspot.com/2009/10/madeinterationally-exhibition-at.html 2008: “Digital Panoramas,” Roderick Coover, Temple University, http://www.unknownterritories.org/DigitalPanoramas/index.html 2007: “A&D Exhibit Marks 20 Years,” Ann Arbor News, October 2007 2006: NMC media-N: journal of the new media caucus 2006: “Photography Exhibit Looks at Jews in America,” U-entertainment, Steven Rosen 2005: “Imagined Communities,” The Jewish Quarterly, Matthew J. Reisz, Autumn 2005 http:// http:// 2004:“Kayam Al Hurbano: Video work by Tirtza Even and Brian Karl,” Liquid Spaces Catalogue, Israel Museum Press, Ayala Amir 2004: “In Occupied Territory,” The Promise The Land, Brian Karl, O.K Books, Linz2003: Review of The Promise, The Land, Rundschau kultur&freizeit, Linz, February 2003 2003: Review of The Promise, The Land, OONachrichten, Linz, February 2003 2003: “Contemporary Art / Recent Acquisitions at the Jewish Museum,” The Jewish Press, Richard McBee, April 2003 2002: “Art & Film in the Age of Anxiety: Selections From the 2002 Whitney Biennial,” Los Angeles Weekly, September 27–October 3, 2002 2002: “Art and Film in the Age of Anxiety: Selections from the Whitney Biennial,” Digital City: Los Angeles, 2002 2002: “Art Exhibit Examines World With New Lenses,” Daily Bruin, Siddarth Puri, 2002 2002: Review of Far, Along, The Jewish Week, George Robinson, July 2002 TIRTZA EVEN 19 C U R R I C U LU M V ITA E 2002: Review of “Side the Other Side,” The Buffalo News, Bruce Adams, March 2002 2002:“Immateriality, Transformation, Interactivity and Dislocation,” Dutch Magazine, Aric Chen, February 2002 2002: “The Uncertainty Principle,” The Jewish Week, Daniel Belasco, March 2002 2001: Review of Kayam Al Hurbano by Bruce Caron for the Digital Flaherty Seminar 2001: Review of “Land Mine” at Postmasters, The Village Voice, Kim Levin, November 2001 2000: “Multimedia Modeling (Modeling Multimedia Information and Systems),” Shuji Hashimoto, p.64, 2000 2000: “A Multi-Channel Infrastructure For Presenting Nonlinear Hypermedia,” Tina Schneider And Stephen William Smoliar; submitted to World Scientific, June 2000 2000: “Tirtza Even, (Documentary) Gallery 1,” Xcp cross cultural poetics no.6, May 2000 2000:“www.occupied.org,” Le Monde, Jean Lasar, May 2000 2000: “Immagine Leggera,” Cinemah - Palermo, March 2000 1999: “Maya Bijerano on CD ROM,” Yediot Acharonot, June 1999 1999: “Introducing Art Focus,” Kol Haiir, October 1999 1999: “Optical Poem,” Haaretz, Ido Amin, August 1999 1999: “Taking the Words to Another Place,” review of Optical Poem, Iton 77, 1999 1999: “Art as a Trapped Stage,” Studio Art Magazine 102, Hadas Maor, April 1999 1999: “Kayam Al Hurbano,” poem by Maya Bijerano, Iton 77, April 1999 1999: “Mary Kelly/Tirtza Even,” The New Yorker, April 1999 1999: “Open Wound,” Yediot Acharonot, Ilan Nachshon, January 1999 1998: “Multimedia Meditation: Exhibit Uses Hi-Tech to Explore Human Thought,” The Times Union, March 25, 1998 1998: “A Place Invisible,” a talk about Pan with Ilana Tenenbaum, Mishkafaiim 35, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, December 1998 1998:“Pan and Zoom at the Haifa Museum,” Studio Art Magazine 97, Joseph Nachmias, November 1998 1996: “HyperCafe: Narrative and Aesthetic Properties of Hypervideo,” HYPERTEXT ‘96 ACM conference, Nitin Sawhney, David Balcom and Ian Smith; ISBN:0-89791-778-2 1995: “Can You Digit?,” Studio Magazine 72, Roee Rosen, April 1995 TIRTZA EVEN 20 C U R R I C U LU M V ITA E EXHIBITION CATALOGUES/HANDBOOKS 2015: Natural Life, Discussion Guide 2008: Rencontres Internationales; Exhibition Catalogue 2008: Virtual Residency, Germany; Exhibition Catalogue 2007: The Conseil General, Territoire de Belfort Art; Collection Catalogue 2005: The Jewish Identity Project: New American Photography, Yale Univ. Press, S. Chevlowe 2004: Liquid Spaces, Digital Works by Five Israelis, DVD, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem 2003: The Promise, The Land, O.K Books 1/04, Linz; Exhibition Catalogue 2002: Whitney Biennial 2002; Exhibition Catalogue 2001: b/t*, New Art Center, Boston CyberArts 2001; Exhibition Handbook 2000: DMZ_2000, Gallery Korea, NY; Exhibition Catalogue 1999: Art Focus, International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Jerusalem; Exhibition Catalogue TIRTZA EVEN 21